You can burn your project to a standard-definition DVD or a to Blu-ray-compatible disc. There are two ways to create a Blu-ray-compatible disc:
Use an external optical drive that supports Blu-ray Disc burning to blue laser media.
Use a standard DVD burner and standard red laser media to create an AVCHD disc with HD video content and menus. You can play AVCHD discs in Blu-ray players if they are compatible with AVCHD discs.
You can also create a disk image (.img) file that you can copy to an external drive. You can take the disk image to a disc replication facility or burn it to DVD or Blu-ray Disc media at a later time using Disk Utility.
Markers are added to the file on disc at 30-second intervals, making it it possible to use the DVD or Blu-ray player’s remote to skip forward or backward 30 seconds each time the Next Chapter or Previous Chapter buttons are pressed. Each disc format has a maximum allowable number of disc markers:
Note: If Compressor is installed on your computer, you can use the Send to Compressor option to open the project in Compressor, where you can add and name chapter markers using the Preview window. For more information, see Compressor Help.
Choose Share > DVD.
Choose a destination from the “Output device” pop-up menu.
The menu displays your system’s suitable output devices, including available optical drives and the computer’s hard disk. To burn a disc, choose an optical drive. To create a disk image (.img) file that you can copy to an external drive or burn to DVD media later, choose Hard Drive.
From the Layers pop-up menu, choose whether to burn a single-layer or dual-layer disc.
Important: Selecting “Dual-layer” when using a single-layer disc can result in an error during burning, depending on the project’s length.
Choose an available template from the “Disc template” pop-up menu.
Enter the name of the disc in the Title field.
By default, the name of the disc is the project name.
To specify the DVD player’s action when the disc is inserted, choose an item from the “When disc loads” pop-up menu.
Choose Show Menu to have a main menu appear. Choose Play Movie to begin playing the movie immediately.
To add a background to DVD menus, click the Add button and choose a graphic (navigating to where you keep your graphics files on disk).
To choose a different background, click the Clear button, then click Add again.
Click Main Menu to see a preview of menus included with the selected template and background; click Project to see a preview of the movie.
To specify additional Motion-specific options, click Render.
For more information about the options available in the Render pane, see Render Options for Sharing.
To use background rendering, click Advanced.
For more information about background rendering, see Background Rendering.
To see details about files to be output, click Summary.
In the Options pane, do one of the following:
Important: If you click Burn before inserting a dual-layer destination disc, Motion assumes it is a single-layer disc, resulting in only half the disc being used, and poorer-quality video.
Important: By default, the Share feature assumes single-layer media for disk images and adjusts the bit rate accordingly.
To monitor the render progress, use Share Monitor. For more information, see About Share Monitor.
Choose Share > Blu-ray.
In the window that appears, choose a file destination from the “Output device” pop-up menu.
The pop-up menu displays your system’s suitable output devices, including optical drives and the computer’s hard disk. Each device is identified by the type of output it supports (Blu-ray or AVCHD).
To create a disk image (.img) file that you can copy to an external drive or burn to Blu-ray media later, choose Hard Drive.
From the Layers pop-up menu, choose whether to burn a single-layer or dual-layer disc.
Important: Selecting “Dual-layer” when using a single-layer disc can result in an error while burning the disc, depending on the project’s length.
Choose a template from the “Disc template” pop-up menu.
Enter the name of the disc in the Title field.
By default, the name of the disc is the project name.
To specify the Blu-ray player’s action when the disc is inserted, choose an item from the “When disc loads” pop-up menu.
Choose Show Menu to have the main menu appear. Choose Play Movie to begin playing the movie immediately.
To add a Loop Movie button to the menu, select “Include loop movie button.”
Note: This option is not available for all disc templates.
Click Main Menu to see a preview of menus included with the selected template; click Project to see a preview of the movie.
To add a background, logo, or title to menus, click the Add button and choose a graphic (navigating to where you keep your graphics files on disk).
To choose a different background, click the Clear button, then click Add again.
To specify additional Motion-specific options, click Render.
For more information about the options available in the Render pane, see Render Options for Sharing.
To use background rendering, click Advanced.
For more information about background rendering, see Background Rendering.
To see details about files to be output, click Summary.
In the Options pane, do one of the following:
Important: If you click Burn before inserting a dual-layer destination disc, Motion assumes it is a single-layer disc, resulting in only half the disc being used, and poorer-quality video.
Important: By default, the Share feature assumes single-layer media for disk images and adjusts the bit rate accordingly.
To monitor the render progress, use Share Monitor. For more information, see About Share Monitor.
Note: Blu-ray and AVCHD menus are best suited for displays set to show 1080 lines of vertical resolution.